He also asked - aloud, on TV - whether 'Twlight Zone' or 'Lost', which are both fictional TV shows, might hold the solution to finding the plane.

"A small black hole would suck in our entire universe, so we know it’s not that," responded Mary Schiavo, a former Inspector General for the US Department of Transportation.

To be kind, Lemon was probably asking the question as an expression of mystery and 'the unknown' rather than a specific personal theory about the presence of minute, disappearing hypermassive singularities above the Pacific Ocean.

But when you've dragged out the story so much that you're onto the purely fictional causes for what appears to be a monumental tragedy, it might be time to just stop and think for a second.